Graduate-Student Papers on Cultural Politics

"A Jewish 'Port Royal': Mendelssohn’s Hebrew Canon of Linguistic Logic and the German Enlightenment that Never Knew It Existed" Speaker: Zachary Hayworth, PhD Candidate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Contact: Ilana...

"Negotiating the Cultural Politics of Decolonization: Art, Sovereignty, and Restitution in Algeria and France" Speaker: Andrew Bellisari, Phd Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University. Contact: Ilana Freedman ifreedman@g.harvard.edu Chair...

"Evangelizing Zeus: The Iliad According to Loukanes" Speaker: Calliope Dourou, PhD Candidate, Department of the Classics; Preceptor in Modern Greek, Harvard University. Contact: Ilana Freedman ifreedman@g.harvard.edu Chair: Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty...

"Positioning the Past in National Reconciliation: Closure-Oriented versus Perpetuating Approaches" Speaker: Charlotte Lloyd, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Contact: Ilana Freedman ifreedman@g.harvard.edu Chair: Panagiotis...

"The Imagination Paradox: Participation or Performance of Visioning the City" Speaker: Katarzyna Balug, PhD Student, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Contact: Ilana Freedman ifreedman@g.harvard.edu Chair: Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate...

"Exploring Minority Leadership, Assimilation, and Group Boundaries in the 20th Century and Today: The Holocaust Literature of Greek Writer Dimitris Hatzis" Speaker: Jasmine Samara, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Contact...

"The Politics of Hermeneutics: Gandhi, Madhusudana, and the Allegorical Subject of the Bhagavad Gita" Speaker: Aditya Menon, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. Contact: Heather Conrad hconrad@wcfia.harvard.edu Chair...

"Romantic Hellenism and Violence: The Case of P. B. Shelley" Speaker: Simos Zeniou, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. Contact: Heather Conrad hconrad@wcfia.harvard.edu Chair: Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate...

"Animation Against Apartheid: William Kentridge and the Politics of Mime" Speaker: Harmon Siegel, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Contact: Heather Conrad hconrad@wcfia.harvard.edu Chair: Panagiotis Roilos...

"Anti-Americanism and Anti-Interventionism in Arabic Twitter Discourses" Speaker: David Romney, Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Contact: Heather Conrad hconrad@wcfia.harvard.edu Chair: Panagiotis...